![]() Simon and the Cobb family become friends, and through them he meets Justin, who works in Battersea Castle, just across the river, and then discovers that his old friend from childhood, Sophie, is working as a ladies’ maid at the castle. Cobb, whose shop is near the school, and is soon working for him. He gives Simon a test, and soon admits him as a student. Furneaux, is also puzzled by the disappearance of Dr. Simon rents the apartment, and makes his way to the art academy, where the director, Dr. He’s soon entangled with the young girl Dido Twite, who takes a liking to him and his donkey, and seems to know more than she’s telling about Dr. Field, who had written to Simon that he was living there, but clues make Simon think there’s more to the story. When he finds it, he discovers an empty top floor apartment, and the Twites know nothing about any Dr. Field above the Twite family in London’s East End near the Thames. ![]() As this book opens, Simon and his donkey are in London looking for the rented flat of Dr. Field, a medical doctor but also a man studying to be a painter, and he saw talent for painting in Simon and encouraged him to come stay with him in London so he could take lessons at the same art academy. In “Wolves,” he brought the two girls in that story to London, and they met Dr. ![]() ![]() This is the second book of Aiken’s “Wolves Chronicles,” a sequel of sorts to “The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.” It follows Simon, the boy from the first book who lives in the woods on his own. ![]()
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